Sorry for the late update, I was distracted by Easter and UIL. I hope you enjoy this chapter, and will please review it.

Thanks to RAWN for being my beta, and I don't own Sonic, Sega does.

'Okay so our last play went really well,' I said clapping my hands together earning me shocked looks of disbelief.

"Tails became a bit of a psycho!" Knuckles yelled.

"You sent him to Yellowstone Park," Sonic added.

'He'll be back!' I protested. 'I didn't put near enough stamps on that box. I'm sure they'll ship him back soon.'

"Did you put air holes in the box?" Shadow asked. "I don't remember you doing that."

I thought about it for a moment before slapping a palm to my head.

'I knew I forgot something!' I muttered. I shrugged my shoulders and smiled reassuringly. 'I'm sure he'll be fine. I mean you guys breath in space and stuff! I'm sure Tails can survive a cardboard box with no air.'

Sonic gave me a nasty look and went to go stand in a corner.

'Well, the show must go on,' I said casually picking up a piece of paper. 'Okay the plays that we can do are Les Miserables, Rapunzel, and the 12 Dancing Princesses, those plays where people throw things and scream, or anything really.'

Rouge grimaced.

"Those all sound like horrible ideas," she complained. "We don't even have enough characters for half of those plays."

"Yeah," Vector agreed. "And there is no way you could make me play a girl's role. I'm not a sissy."

Knuckles then punched Vector in the stomach.

"Shut up!" he hissed.

I sighed.

'Stop it,' I ordered. 'We're going to do a play either way so you guys want to or not, so you all should just come to peace with it.'

They all groaned.

"Well if we have to do a play," Espio said reluctantly. "Can we at least do something that will allow us to keep our dignity?"

I looked at him thoughtfully and sympathetically.

'Probably not... This is the internet after all. There's no place for dignity,' I said patting him on the shoulder.

Espio glowered and went to go brood in the corner with Sonic.

I clapped my hands together once again.

'Okay, so I've decided that we should do the classic and beloved children's tale, "The Three Little Pigs"' I announced proudly.

Everyone grimaced.

"None of us are pigs," Espio said flatly. "And the closest thing we have to a wolf was sent to Yellowstone in a box without air holes."

'He'll be back,' I protested though I added sheepishly, 'You know…probably.'

Sonic glared at me, and if looks could kill, I'd be dead ten times over.

'Well…um…okay,' I said clearing my throat. 'I think that Vector, Espio, and Charmy will make fine pigs, and yeah we'll just figure the rest out as we go along.'

"Couldn`t you use the 'hogs' for those parts?" Espio complained and gestured toward the fuming blue hedgehog and the annoyed red streaked one.

'That won`t do, they`re only two. Besides I need someone more cheerful to play the pigs.'

Vector and Espio grimaced while Charmy started flailing around.

'No I will not take the duct tape off of your mouth,' I said answering his unasked question. 'You're just going to have to perform as you are. I mean seriously, the whole not speaking thing could really be your stick!'

Shadow stared at me with a deadpan look.

"You mean shtick?" he asked his voice monotone.

'Bless you,' I said sympathetically.

"I'm pretty sure you already used that joke," Shadow retorted crossing his arms. "I'm pretty sure you've already used all the same jokes twice."

'And that's my stick!' I told him happily. 'Now let's do that play!'

"It's shtick!" Shadow called after me irritably as Espio, Vector, and Charmy walked dutifully to the stage.

Once they were onstage, it began. Again.

'Once upon a time there were three pigs, except they weren't so much pigs as a crocodile, chameleon, and bee, but for the purpose of simplicity, they're just going to be called pigs.' I said my tone leaving no room for arguments.

Espio rolled his eyes, and Vector slapped a palm to his head. Charmy just kind of stood on the stage, doing nothing interesting.

"We're pigs," Vector and Espio said dully, while Charmy said, "Mmmmmm.' Also quite dully.

'Shush!' I ordered. 'You're not supposed to talk yet. Wait for your cue.' I cleared my throat and began again. 'Yes, they were pigs for the purpose of this story, but they decided one day that they should leave the place where they were currently staying, and go make themselves homes in the dark forest where there were wolves. Because they were smart like that.'

I looked pointedly at the three on stage.

"What she said, and now we will do stuff I guess," Vector said uncertainly. "You know, pig stuff."

"I guess we make our houses now," Espio said looking at me for confirmation.

I smiled and nodded.

'There are supplies behind the stage. Feel free to be as creative as you want, but remember you only have 30 minutes to build your house,' I instructed.

"We have to build our houses?" Vector asked staring at me in disbelief.

"This is part of that whole method acting you're so crazy about, isn't it?" Espio asked though he already knew the answer.

'Good luck guys,' I said cheekily waving and walking off of the stage. 'You'll need it,' I added under my breath.

The guys groaned and walked behind the stage to find an assortment of materials that they could use to build their house.

"Well let's get this over with," Espio muttered grabbing a deck of cards. "I'm just going to make something right fast so this stupid play can be done with and she can choose a new victim."

He began to set up the cards in an organized way and in a few minutes he had made himself a house of cards.

"I guess that will have to do," he said satisfied with his handy-work.

Vector eyes it approvingly.

"That looks good Espio," he said. "I made my house out of what I think are Lincoln logs. I guess it will be good enough."

Charmy mmmmed really loudly so he could get the others attention. When they looked his way, he started flailing around wildly and mmmmed like crazy. Finally he pulled back and proudly showed off his house made out of Legos.

"Mmmmm mmm mm mmmmm mm," he proclaimed proudly.

"Wow Charmy Legos," Vector said sarcastically. "That's real original. Bricks, that's really the dumbest building material."

Espio nodded his head in agreement while Charmy hung his in shame.

'Your time is up!' I called from the front of the stage. 'Show us your houses and then we can begin the play.'

The guys quickly pushed their houses onto the stage, and I appraised them.

'Those look lovely,' I said sweetly. 'Now we can begin the second part of the play, and just in time too.'

"What do you mean?" Vector asked warily.

'I just got a package from the people at Yellowstone!' I said braggingly. 'And I'm pretty sure I know what it is.'

Sonic brightened at the prospect of his best friend coming back before a flash of worry came over his face.

"Is he alright?" he asked worriedly.

'I'm sure he's fine. I mean I heard scuffling coming from inside the box so I guess that mean he didn't run out of oxygen.'

Sonic looked relieved at that, and I couldn't help but smile.

'I suppose I could let him out of the box now. I mean his part is coming up. I've decided that from now on, Tails should be our crazy killer wolf. I don't think I can undo any of the psycho training so I figured that it would be best to just roll with it.'

I quickly brought the box out and opened up, dropping the orange fox onto the ground.

"Hey Sonic," he said brightly. "I missed you when I went on my trip. I wish I could have gotten you a snow globe or something, but I had to stay in that dark box. Sorry."

"It's alright buddy," Sonic said reassuringly. "How was the box?"

"There was no oxygen," he said simply.

'Yeah lack of oxygen, that's wonderful,' I said. 'Now it's time for your performance! Get out there!' I ordered giving the small fox a push.

Tails quickly ran onto the stage.

"I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing," he announced.

'Just go knock the houses down and yell at them,' I told him tiredly. This chapter was getting entirely too long.

"All right," he agreed before walking quietly over to Espio's house of cards.

"I'm going to knock down your house," he said simply "…because it's made out of a senseless material."

With that Tails blew on the card house and it toppled over.

Then he moved on to Vector's house and simply pushed it over without bothering to comment on it.

Espio and Vector glowered at the fox who went over to Charmy`s house.

"I like your house," Tails said cheerfully. "Legos are awesome."

With that Tails walked off the stage and went to go stand next to Sonic.

I stared at the docile fox in amazement.

'What do you know,' I said more to myself than anyone else. 'I guess being inside a box kind of knocks some of the craziness out of you.'